..Although previous breast or axillary surgery is often considered a contraindication to SLN biopsy, few data support this position. We report our experience with SLN biopsy in the reoperative setting...

..The aim of this article is to discuss the potential subpopulations of patients that may avoid unnecessary ALND in the modern era of breast cancer management...

Local approaches to hereditary breast cancer

B T CooperDepartment of Radiation Oncology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, New YorkAnn Oncol 24:viii54-viii60. 2013

..This updated report aims at summarizing the most recent findings, while it identifies the areas of uncertainty that remain, and continue to present difficult challenges, particularly among younger HBC patients. ..

..Such a strategy would greatly reduce the numbers of women who would need to take tamoxifen to obtain the same absolute reduction in breast cancer. These findings are exploratory and need to be confirmed in other randomized trials...

..Atherosclerosis may induce VTE, or the 2 conditions may share common risk factors. We assessed the effect of tamoxifen on VTE in a breast cancer prevention trial and studied its association with risk factors for VTE...

A prospective analysis of the effect of blue-dye volume on sentinel lymph node mapping success and incidence of allergic reaction in patients with breast cancer

..This study examined whether the volume of isosulfan blue dye used in sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping in breast cancer is related to the SLN identification rate or to the incidence of allergic reactions...

MRI evaluation of breast cancer

Karl J SweeneyN Engl J Med 357:192; author reply 193. 2007

Is there a role for magnetic resonance imaging in a population-based breast cancer screening program?